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NASA’s adorable underwater rover might be the first to discover alien life 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 22, 2019
NASA is about to put a rover to the test in Antarctica, and it’s unlike any robot the agency has ever shot into space.

By David Aragorn
Meet Hector, the massive thunderstorm that shows up every day 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- November 22, 2019
Meteorologists give names to large storms with wide impacts — like tropical cyclones and, in some cases, massive winter storms — to help make communication easier. If you have several active tropical storms, for instance, you want to be sure everyone knows which one you’re discussing.

By David Aragorn
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Could Find More of Earth’s Transient Moons 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 22, 2019
It is a well-known astronomical convention that Earth has only one natural satellite, which is known (somewhat uncreatively) as “the Moon”. However, astronomers have known for a little over a decade that Earth also has a population of what are known as “transient Moons”. These are a subset of Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) that are temporarily scooped up by Earth’s gravity and assume orbits around our planet.

By David Aragorn
Scientists catch glimpse of a fifth force of nature 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- November 22, 2019
The fifth force could also potentially help researchers explain and spot black matter, which is theorized to account for 85 per cent of the universe

By David Aragorn
Earth’s magnetic song recorded for the first time during a solar storm 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 22, 2019
Data from ESA’s Cluster mission has provided a recording of the eerie “song” that Earth sings when it is hit by a solar storm.

By David Aragorn
How to watch over 400 meteors shoot through the sky for an hour Thursday night 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 21, 2019
The night sky could light up with hundreds of shooting stars for an hour on Thursday thanks to a spectacular celestial event.

By David Aragorn
Advocates promote planetary defense mission ahead of ESA ministerial 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 21, 2019
A group of planetary defense advocates is asking European governments to fund a mission to a near Earth asteroid, three years after a similar mission failed to win approval.

By David Aragorn
2 Infants Were Buried Wearing Helmets Made from Kids’ Skulls. And Archaeologists Are Puzzled.0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- November 21, 2019
Two infants were buried some 2,100 years ago wearing “helmets” made from the skulls of other children, archaeologists have discovered.

By David Aragorn
‘I knew that was going to happen:’ Déjà vu and the ‘postdictive’ bias 0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- November 21, 2019
Memory researchers document a ‘postdictive’ bias in deja vu experiencers in the lab, and offer an explanation

By David Aragorn
A weird, orbital dance keeps these moons of Neptune from hitting each other 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 21, 2019
Bobbing up and down like a carousel horse might not sound like a stable way to orbit a planet, but it works for one little moon of Neptune. The planet’s innermost known satellite, Naiad, has a tilted orbit and it moves up-and-down relative to its neighboring moon, Thalassa.

By David Aragorn